Sneak Previews for Mesh Edits, Anyone?
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hat_plays_simsSo here I am, sitting on a pile of things, hoping for mesh fixes...
Okay, no, not actually sitting on the pile, I was making progress taking Body Shop pics for swatches, which is a gateway to taking in-game pics for Proper Download Posts, and BOY don't you hate it when you retexture an accessory a bunch of times and it's fine on the age/gender where you first messed with it but you didn't think to check, say, toddlers?
I am having that issue, and I am willing to barter still-unreleased content for fixes.
First, and most annoyingly, thus outside the cut:
Bloom's Glove Accessory hates separates, and also, MtF conversions. (I'm sure there's no "fix" for Bonehilda, I just got to her in the catalog and went 'why not' and it's probably an alpha thing.) JulieJ's men's version also clips a little bit on most of my meshes, which bothers me but somehow LESS than 'this fits fine on most things but not on a bunch of stuff I want to use as outerwear.'
Anyone willing to enlarge the gloves a bit and be rewarded with 82 recolors, men's and/or women's? I have plans for more textures and heraldic devices and hawking gloves (though those might not work on a lot of clothes... hm) and stuff, but if the glove won't fit on my danged separates, it's hard to want to get that done. I have other things I could trade, but, one pic outside the cut, you know?
Similarly...
Midgethetree's Seasons Lost-And-Found mittens, which clearly show why Maxis lost them on Baby Jetstorm there. They're all-ages-both-genders and there's occasional clipping with everybody, but constant clipping on toddlers. I don't have a single mesh, Maxis meshes included, that doesn't show protruding toddler fingers in Body Shop.
Which is deeply disappointing because I most want these things for toddlers (and kids, but first, toddlers. Toddler clothes are HARD, okay, if I can fake winter clothes with a hood and mittens, I am happy). I do not know how to find the mesh in the Seasons game files to edit it. But I did recolor these 82 times in wool, and I want to do them in knit/nalbinding, but... the little baby hands going right through.
This one's my own fault. MGSB re-mapped this MDP 4t2 sun hat for me, and she did a fantastic job. I did not, however, ask her to check all the ages to see if they looked as nice as the adult age. Adults and kids are okay, teens are... mostly okay, but toddlers have the hat WAY too far forward. Please help? I have 25 recolors of this already. (Bonus points, re-fit it on everybody so it goes over Cynnix's coif? I always love a hat that goes over Cynnix's coif.)
This one... this one I keep waffling on? It's this dress, and it's got FR's poulaines on a second group, because they overlap by a couple of pixels with the bottom-of-the-dress texture. (I last used this one on my nuns, but I think I forgot the two groups on it.) Thing is... it's the bottom-of-the-dress texture, it could be shrunk a little so it doesn't overlap with the shoes without any real issue. But I'm going back and forth on it, because two subsets is more work to recolor/texture reference, but I could texture-reference the shoes/socks to my existing FR Chausses-and-poulaines and save even MORE space, but if they were all on one texture map I could mix-and-match the hose colors which I wouldn't bother to do if I were TR'ing to another thing...
So... uh, looking for opinions, actually, I guess? Would you rather download this as one group, with contrasty socks, or two groups with massive texture-referencing?
Don't judge the weird singey spots, that's so Volatile runs better.
These aren't ready to trade, but I have the base dress textures (and colors, and select guides so the belts can be various colors of leather with various metals of buckle) done. If two groups I have the poulaine textures, too, but if someone merges them to one group I... technically still have those done, I just need to make select guides. Anyway if this one is going to get group-reduced, now's the best time to do it, because I have colors done but not layers. (But I am excited just to show these off. Full-body pull-on dresses! For the woman who does not have time for fiddly laces or buttons.)
This one, like the pull-on gown, I do not have ready recolors of to bribe you with. I just. I just have woes. This is the Sim Ages Medieval Fantasy gown, and I want to turn it into a Burgundian gown. (Also Prior Attire has some good examples but their gallery doesn't let me link to specifics.) The skirt and sleeves on this mesh are so nice for a Burgundian gown, but the bodice is killing me. Problems include:
a) I can't put the belt high enough or it starts to wobble (underbust area not mapped in a belt-friendly way)
b) The hard line in the bust area that defines the neckline so nicely? It's too low and too wide, so I can't get the correct angle on the contrast collar. (Otherwise I would not mind boobtastic gowns.)
c) When the collar is wide enough, the UV mapping shreds it-- but if the hard neckline... line... were flattened or raised and narrowed, I could move the collar in somewhat.
d) the AF bump map is broken; I can neither use it nor delete it.
It'd also be nice to have a version with GLB's Epic Sleeves attached so I can turn this into a houppelande as well, but even just getting this dress workable would add some fun variety to things.
Anyway it's sort of almost there, what I need to be able to do is, basically, put the shoulder edge of the collar where the inside neckline edge is, lift the neckline so it covers the cleavage, and lift the belt so it's properly under the boobs. I don't know if editing the mesh (other than to fix the bump map) would be better than just... making a whole new mesh. Help? Help.
Not interested in those specific things? I don't HAVE to barter matchy stuff, and I have other stuff I'm sitting on, so...
I got top-only tuttensacks, TF-EF! 8 Linens! I need do these for Athletic Girl, too, and I actually have the meshes for that-- maybe your desire for them will spur me on! Will also barter these for top-only swimsuit-smooth nudes for RenGal V2 TF-YAEF, so I can complete the set.
I got bottom-only gartered chausses, CF-EF! 82 colors! Will also barter for blockfoot pantsless bottoms for Maxis AM, Runner Guy TM-YAEM, Athletic Girl TF-YAEF, RenGal V2 CF-YAEF, or swimsuit-smooth sexyfeet bottoms for Athletic Girl TF-YAEF, RenGal V2 CF-YAEF, and/or Runner Guy TM-YAEM. I could do Lean Bodybuilder, but I like Runner Guy better this close to naked. (Bottom-only chausses to mix-and-match with shirts or shirtlessness or tuttensacks! I want to do this project. I have the textures for this project. I am missing certain key meshes, like AM blockfoot pantsless/swim, to complete this project.)
I got Dragon Age boots, CM-EM, 82 colors! With snugged-up mesh edit by Simborg! (Not shown but very nice.)
I got silk bliauts! TF-YAEF, Sherahbim silkiness, Gwenke mesh, GLB teen conversion, 82 colors!
I got top-only rucked kirtles, CF-YAEF, Gwenke mesh edited by Simborg so it works with more bottoms when fat, 82 colors in with-socks and without-socks variations!
I got Altair Hoods! 82 solids, 82 lined, 82 particolor, 12 red-lined blues, 12 heraldic particolor! I got so many hoods! CU-EU! (I still do want Daislia's Ezio hood as an all-ages-both-genders accessory, despite... all the hoods.)
I got accessory poncho thingies that I thought sort of looked like a liripipe wrapped around the shoulders! TM-EM!
I got even more hoods! Synaptic Sim's cape-and-cowl, 82 colors with the whole thing, 82 with just the hood, 82 with just the cape, TU-YAEU!
I got bottom-only soled hosen, CM-YAEM! 82 particolors!
I got top-only buttoned Tig tunics, with fatmorph fixes by Simborg! CM-YAEM, 82 colors, nice enough to wear with particolored hose!
I got straighter bottom-only mermaid tails, suitable for swimming rather than floating around not clipping the floor! 16 colors each for Fin 1 and Fin 2, CU-EU! Thanks MGSB!
I got mermaid tops! Ignore the text that says just Bloom, I forgot I hadn't released the Androgyny and Maxis ones. CU-EU for Maxis, TU-EU for Androgyny, YA-EF for Bloom! Matches the bottom-only fins! The mermaid stuff is a title card and some in-game pics away from being postable.
Pre-release curly hair dump! Like half a gig of curly hair. Help. (Not actually dumped becaue I haven't come up with names for any of them yet. Names are hard, but I have a system.)
I got toddler time! Cynnix gowns & tunics with low boots for PU, 82 colors each!
I got the Mage College! Some of it is other people's stuff (mostly Skell's) that I've BINX-sorted and pinned to Apartment Life, some of it is Red Mage stuff I've made, including Bonehilda. Hats, hairs, clothes. Would also barter this one for expansions, such as a skirt under the wizard coat for PU-YAEU, or something specific to CM? I have nothing for CM that isn't also for CF, which is technically fine but not in a 'tiny wizard boys also have clothes' way. ... top-only wizard robes? Look I just. I just like that coat a lot.
I got blinding-overlay accessories! Because I needed Shockwave to be blind in his RIGHT eye, but all the eyepatches I could find were for the LEFT eye. (Would also trade for Marja's all-ages both-genders BV eyepatch mirrored.) Just the one recolor but I did it for both eyes. I could do sheerer ones, this is based on an overlay by Sullivan, and slapped onto Nopke's Heterochromia mesh.
I got Deer Season! Midgethetree bottom-only deer pants for CU-EU (full-body deer onesie for PU) with meshfixes by Simborg, Katu antlers, Trapping antlers, and CoD deer tails with fixes by MGSB! Pooklet Naturals and Aelia Eco bonus on the antlers! This one is a title card and some in-game pics away from being ready to go.
I got sugegasa! Because it seemed like such a workable mesh. It just needed some nicer (Sun & Moon basketweaving) textures. 25 colors!
I got stuff that's... hardly mine actually! Meduza's Castaway Stories extracted necklaces as necklaces had one recolor each, so I mostly just slapped on the original CS textures-- but I added a black to the Seashells Necklace for a multiple of four, then alpha'd out the seashells for just beads, and for the Shaman necklace I did a brown nut recolor for a multiple of four. TF-EF on the Seashells, TU-EU on Shaman. Would also trade for the BV and CS Fronds crowns snipped off their hairstyles and turned into accessories, or for these necklaces (big weird flower, framed seashell, snake choker, alpha pearls) turned into accessories (the pearls might need to deflate a bit but they're mapped so nice).
And I think that's it, at least in terms of Body Shop stuff I keep piling up and not previewing for reasons. I've been going through gathering screenshots for swatches, at least, that's progress, especially considering I don't mind releasing accessories as a dump, and I am very close to a Seasonal Accessories Dump. (There's, like, one more hat and some flowers I want to do.) There's Buy Mode Blitz stuff, but that's more... message me and I'll link you to my google doc? If none of these fixes are up your alley but you still want a sneak preview of something because you don't trust me to get a danged post up (nor should you), my freshly-updated wishlist is here, some of these items are on it but there's other stuff!
Okay, no, not actually sitting on the pile, I was making progress taking Body Shop pics for swatches, which is a gateway to taking in-game pics for Proper Download Posts, and BOY don't you hate it when you retexture an accessory a bunch of times and it's fine on the age/gender where you first messed with it but you didn't think to check, say, toddlers?
I am having that issue, and I am willing to barter still-unreleased content for fixes.
First, and most annoyingly, thus outside the cut:
Bloom's Glove Accessory hates separates, and also, MtF conversions. (I'm sure there's no "fix" for Bonehilda, I just got to her in the catalog and went 'why not' and it's probably an alpha thing.) JulieJ's men's version also clips a little bit on most of my meshes, which bothers me but somehow LESS than 'this fits fine on most things but not on a bunch of stuff I want to use as outerwear.'
Anyone willing to enlarge the gloves a bit and be rewarded with 82 recolors, men's and/or women's? I have plans for more textures and heraldic devices and hawking gloves (though those might not work on a lot of clothes... hm) and stuff, but if the glove won't fit on my danged separates, it's hard to want to get that done. I have other things I could trade, but, one pic outside the cut, you know?
Similarly...
Midgethetree's Seasons Lost-And-Found mittens, which clearly show why Maxis lost them on Baby Jetstorm there. They're all-ages-both-genders and there's occasional clipping with everybody, but constant clipping on toddlers. I don't have a single mesh, Maxis meshes included, that doesn't show protruding toddler fingers in Body Shop.
Which is deeply disappointing because I most want these things for toddlers (and kids, but first, toddlers. Toddler clothes are HARD, okay, if I can fake winter clothes with a hood and mittens, I am happy). I do not know how to find the mesh in the Seasons game files to edit it. But I did recolor these 82 times in wool, and I want to do them in knit/nalbinding, but... the little baby hands going right through.
This one's my own fault. MGSB re-mapped this MDP 4t2 sun hat for me, and she did a fantastic job. I did not, however, ask her to check all the ages to see if they looked as nice as the adult age. Adults and kids are okay, teens are... mostly okay, but toddlers have the hat WAY too far forward. Please help? I have 25 recolors of this already. (Bonus points, re-fit it on everybody so it goes over Cynnix's coif? I always love a hat that goes over Cynnix's coif.)
This one... this one I keep waffling on? It's this dress, and it's got FR's poulaines on a second group, because they overlap by a couple of pixels with the bottom-of-the-dress texture. (I last used this one on my nuns, but I think I forgot the two groups on it.) Thing is... it's the bottom-of-the-dress texture, it could be shrunk a little so it doesn't overlap with the shoes without any real issue. But I'm going back and forth on it, because two subsets is more work to recolor/texture reference, but I could texture-reference the shoes/socks to my existing FR Chausses-and-poulaines and save even MORE space, but if they were all on one texture map I could mix-and-match the hose colors which I wouldn't bother to do if I were TR'ing to another thing...
So... uh, looking for opinions, actually, I guess? Would you rather download this as one group, with contrasty socks, or two groups with massive texture-referencing?
Don't judge the weird singey spots, that's so Volatile runs better.
These aren't ready to trade, but I have the base dress textures (and colors, and select guides so the belts can be various colors of leather with various metals of buckle) done. If two groups I have the poulaine textures, too, but if someone merges them to one group I... technically still have those done, I just need to make select guides. Anyway if this one is going to get group-reduced, now's the best time to do it, because I have colors done but not layers. (But I am excited just to show these off. Full-body pull-on dresses! For the woman who does not have time for fiddly laces or buttons.)
This one, like the pull-on gown, I do not have ready recolors of to bribe you with. I just. I just have woes. This is the Sim Ages Medieval Fantasy gown, and I want to turn it into a Burgundian gown. (Also Prior Attire has some good examples but their gallery doesn't let me link to specifics.) The skirt and sleeves on this mesh are so nice for a Burgundian gown, but the bodice is killing me. Problems include:
a) I can't put the belt high enough or it starts to wobble (underbust area not mapped in a belt-friendly way)
b) The hard line in the bust area that defines the neckline so nicely? It's too low and too wide, so I can't get the correct angle on the contrast collar. (Otherwise I would not mind boobtastic gowns.)
c) When the collar is wide enough, the UV mapping shreds it-- but if the hard neckline... line... were flattened or raised and narrowed, I could move the collar in somewhat.
d) the AF bump map is broken; I can neither use it nor delete it.
It'd also be nice to have a version with GLB's Epic Sleeves attached so I can turn this into a houppelande as well, but even just getting this dress workable would add some fun variety to things.
Anyway it's sort of almost there, what I need to be able to do is, basically, put the shoulder edge of the collar where the inside neckline edge is, lift the neckline so it covers the cleavage, and lift the belt so it's properly under the boobs. I don't know if editing the mesh (other than to fix the bump map) would be better than just... making a whole new mesh. Help? Help.
Not interested in those specific things? I don't HAVE to barter matchy stuff, and I have other stuff I'm sitting on, so...
I got top-only tuttensacks, TF-EF! 8 Linens! I need do these for Athletic Girl, too, and I actually have the meshes for that-- maybe your desire for them will spur me on! Will also barter these for top-only swimsuit-smooth nudes for RenGal V2 TF-YAEF, so I can complete the set.
I got bottom-only gartered chausses, CF-EF! 82 colors! Will also barter for blockfoot pantsless bottoms for Maxis AM, Runner Guy TM-YAEM, Athletic Girl TF-YAEF, RenGal V2 CF-YAEF, or swimsuit-smooth sexyfeet bottoms for Athletic Girl TF-YAEF, RenGal V2 CF-YAEF, and/or Runner Guy TM-YAEM. I could do Lean Bodybuilder, but I like Runner Guy better this close to naked. (Bottom-only chausses to mix-and-match with shirts or shirtlessness or tuttensacks! I want to do this project. I have the textures for this project. I am missing certain key meshes, like AM blockfoot pantsless/swim, to complete this project.)
I got Dragon Age boots, CM-EM, 82 colors! With snugged-up mesh edit by Simborg! (Not shown but very nice.)
I got silk bliauts! TF-YAEF, Sherahbim silkiness, Gwenke mesh, GLB teen conversion, 82 colors!
I got top-only rucked kirtles, CF-YAEF, Gwenke mesh edited by Simborg so it works with more bottoms when fat, 82 colors in with-socks and without-socks variations!
I got Altair Hoods! 82 solids, 82 lined, 82 particolor, 12 red-lined blues, 12 heraldic particolor! I got so many hoods! CU-EU! (I still do want Daislia's Ezio hood as an all-ages-both-genders accessory, despite... all the hoods.)
I got accessory poncho thingies that I thought sort of looked like a liripipe wrapped around the shoulders! TM-EM!
I got even more hoods! Synaptic Sim's cape-and-cowl, 82 colors with the whole thing, 82 with just the hood, 82 with just the cape, TU-YAEU!
I got bottom-only soled hosen, CM-YAEM! 82 particolors!
I got top-only buttoned Tig tunics, with fatmorph fixes by Simborg! CM-YAEM, 82 colors, nice enough to wear with particolored hose!
I got straighter bottom-only mermaid tails, suitable for swimming rather than floating around not clipping the floor! 16 colors each for Fin 1 and Fin 2, CU-EU! Thanks MGSB!
I got mermaid tops! Ignore the text that says just Bloom, I forgot I hadn't released the Androgyny and Maxis ones. CU-EU for Maxis, TU-EU for Androgyny, YA-EF for Bloom! Matches the bottom-only fins! The mermaid stuff is a title card and some in-game pics away from being postable.
Pre-release curly hair dump! Like half a gig of curly hair. Help. (Not actually dumped becaue I haven't come up with names for any of them yet. Names are hard, but I have a system.)
I got toddler time! Cynnix gowns & tunics with low boots for PU, 82 colors each!
I got the Mage College! Some of it is other people's stuff (mostly Skell's) that I've BINX-sorted and pinned to Apartment Life, some of it is Red Mage stuff I've made, including Bonehilda. Hats, hairs, clothes. Would also barter this one for expansions, such as a skirt under the wizard coat for PU-YAEU, or something specific to CM? I have nothing for CM that isn't also for CF, which is technically fine but not in a 'tiny wizard boys also have clothes' way. ... top-only wizard robes? Look I just. I just like that coat a lot.
I got blinding-overlay accessories! Because I needed Shockwave to be blind in his RIGHT eye, but all the eyepatches I could find were for the LEFT eye. (Would also trade for Marja's all-ages both-genders BV eyepatch mirrored.) Just the one recolor but I did it for both eyes. I could do sheerer ones, this is based on an overlay by Sullivan, and slapped onto Nopke's Heterochromia mesh.
I got Deer Season! Midgethetree bottom-only deer pants for CU-EU (full-body deer onesie for PU) with meshfixes by Simborg, Katu antlers, Trapping antlers, and CoD deer tails with fixes by MGSB! Pooklet Naturals and Aelia Eco bonus on the antlers! This one is a title card and some in-game pics away from being ready to go.
I got sugegasa! Because it seemed like such a workable mesh. It just needed some nicer (Sun & Moon basketweaving) textures. 25 colors!
I got stuff that's... hardly mine actually! Meduza's Castaway Stories extracted necklaces as necklaces had one recolor each, so I mostly just slapped on the original CS textures-- but I added a black to the Seashells Necklace for a multiple of four, then alpha'd out the seashells for just beads, and for the Shaman necklace I did a brown nut recolor for a multiple of four. TF-EF on the Seashells, TU-EU on Shaman. Would also trade for the BV and CS Fronds crowns snipped off their hairstyles and turned into accessories, or for these necklaces (big weird flower, framed seashell, snake choker, alpha pearls) turned into accessories (the pearls might need to deflate a bit but they're mapped so nice).
And I think that's it, at least in terms of Body Shop stuff I keep piling up and not previewing for reasons. I've been going through gathering screenshots for swatches, at least, that's progress, especially considering I don't mind releasing accessories as a dump, and I am very close to a Seasonal Accessories Dump. (There's, like, one more hat and some flowers I want to do.) There's Buy Mode Blitz stuff, but that's more... message me and I'll link you to my google doc? If none of these fixes are up your alley but you still want a sneak preview of something because you don't trust me to get a danged post up (nor should you), my freshly-updated wishlist is here, some of these items are on it but there's other stuff!
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Date: 2022-06-11 09:09 am (UTC)They look so good!😍
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Date: 2022-06-11 07:24 pm (UTC)Today is not that day and tomorrow is not looking good either, but someday!